EF1 tornado, West Richwoods to Pleasant Grove, Arkansas, April 27, 2026

1. EF065 to 85 mph

   Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

2. EF186 to 110 mphthis tornado

   Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

3. EF2111 to 135 mph

   Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.

4. EF3136 to 165 mph

   Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.

5. EF4166 to 200 mph

   Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

6. EF5over 200 mph

   Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.

7. Unrated

   The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Rating, as surveyed

EF1, preliminary

Date

April 27, 2026

Touchdown

10:30 PM CDT (03:30 UTC)

Lifted

10:55 PM CDT (03:55 UTC)

On the ground

25 minutes

Path length

13.5 miles (21.7 km)

Path width

400 yards (366 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Stone County

Touchdown point

35.817, -92.160

Lift-off point

35.807, -91.927

Highest wind the damage implies

110 mph

Surveyed by

NWS LZK

The office's name for it

Stone County Tornado

Survey last edited

May 3, 2026

Record number

None yet. SPC numbers 2026 in the spring of 2027.

Storm survey revealed a tornado developed south of Mt. View just east of AR State Hwy 9 west of Stewart Road northwest of the community of Hanover. The tornado continued generally east-southeast crossing Hanover and Luber Roads. The tornado then moved a more easterly direction toward the intersection of Misenheimer and Waco Roads, dropping off the plateau crossing AR State Hwy 5 west of Arbana. The tornado then crossed Iron Mountain Road, eventually lifting near the intersection of Stone County Road 273 and Bob Davis Mountain Road southwest of the Pleasant Grove community. Damage to barns and outbuildings was noted, along with many trees blown down. This tornado was rated EF1, with maximum estimated winds of 110 mph and width of approximately 400 yds.

Written by NWS LZK in the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit. A survey is revised as better evidence arrives.

49 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS LZK, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 110 mph.

• Appears roof was lifted slightly and porch columns collapsed when lifted, no other damage to house visable
• About 100 yards of tree line of trunks snapped, trees uprooted for about 50 yards on either side of that
• Several panels along roof of chicken house lost
• Several roof panels lost on barn roof

Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.

Enter narrative here.

Storm survey revealed a tornado developed south of Mt. View just|east of AR State Hwy 9 west of Stewart Road northwest of the|community of Hanover. The tornado continued generally east-|southeast crossing Hanover and Luber Roads. The tornado then|moved a more easterly direction toward the intersection of|Misenheimer and Waco Roads, dropping off the plateau crossing AR|State Hwy 5 west of Arbana. The tornado then crossed Iron|Mountain Road, eventually lifting near the intersection of Stone|County Road 273 and Bob Davis Mountain Road southwest of the|Pleasant Grove community. Damage to barns and outbuildings was|noted, along with many trees blown down. This tornado was rated|EF1, with maximum estimated winds of 110 mph and width of|approximately 400 yds.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

20 minutes of warning. NWS LZK issued a tornado warning for this county at 03:10 UTC, 20 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 04:00 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 01:23 UTC and running to 06:48 UTC.

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Enhanced Risk, with a 0.05 chance of a tornado within 25 miles, in the hatched area where significant tornadoes were expected. The outlook in force was issued at 00:59 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

Melbourne (42A), 35 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 110 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 03:28 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

The live radar over the trackEvery 2026 tornado in ArkansasEvery tornado in Arkansas since 1950Warnings in force in Arkansas nowThe forecast where you are

28 more have been surveyed in the United States that day, so far.

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. A survey can be revised, so the rating, the path and the casualties can all still change.

NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit, the record the survey teams file from the damage, and NOAA Storm Prediction Center storm reports. Neither is the official database for 2026, which SPC publishes in the spring of 2027.